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Wednesday January 12 11:04 AM ET
Polish Court Convicts Hatemonger
By BEATA PASEK Associated Press Writer
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A Polish
court convicted a radical Catholic
leader Wednesday of inciting hate
against Jews and fined him $98 for
statements he made to hundreds of
followers who erected crosses outside
the Auschwitz death camp.
The court in Oswiecim, where the
former death camp is located, also
gave Kazimierz Switon a suspended
sentence of six months. Prosecutors
had demanded a $367 fine and a year in prison,
suspended as long as he does not commit any other
crime for three years.
Switon said he would appeal the sentence and
protested to reporters outside the court.
``The court is at the service of
Jewish-communist-masonry,'' Switon said, using the
same language
that led to the charges. ``We are enslaved in our own
homeland.''
Switon was charged after residents complained about
statements he made verbally and in leaflets
distributed at the site where followers erected more
than 300 crosses surrounding a large cross used
as a backdrop for a 1979 papal mass at nearby
Birkenau.
The protest was intended to prevent the removal of
the papal cross, moved to the site near Auschwitz
in 1988 and visible from inside the camp, which has
drawn protests from Jewish groups around the
world and the Israeli government for insulting the
memory of Jews killed at Auschwitz.
Some 1.5 million people - mostly Jews - perished at
Auschwitz in 1940-45.
Urging followers to put up crosses, Switon said in
leaflets ``the time has come so that we, Poles,
wage merciless war on Jewish-communist-masonry, the
biggest enemies of the Polish state.'' Leaflets
described Israel and Germany as ``satanic-pagan
forces aiming at extermination of the Polish nation.''
Soldiers remove the crosses in May, right before John
Paul II made his eighth pilgrimage to his
homeland. The larger cross remained.
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